TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD write on British Apprenticeship Culture:
Despite introduction of self-regulation, 20th century history of engineering governance in Britain is a study in persistent commitment to the ideology of apprenticeship/craft.9 In this country while self-regulating engineering discipline- specific associations formed under royal charter continue to define engineering and the role of engineers engineering employers still subscribe to the apprenticeship/craft culture. Being wary of academic grounding in isolation of practical training these employers resist licensing. Engineering in Britain is far from being organized as a profession. It lacks educational closure, has no licensed titles and no managerial structure.
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TalentHunt 360’s founder and CEO Gurmeet Bambrah, PhD write on American Culture of Engineering:
Initially the United States combined the Military academy model with British hands-on training and self-regulation at the Military Academy at West Point in 1802. This remained the case until the 1860s. Civil engineering schools remained obsessed with balancing academic teaching and hands-on experience either independently from the universities or as colleges of engineering only loosely affiliated with universities.6 In a groundbreaking move in 1862, however through the Morrill Act, America initiated the crucial step of placing engineering education inside universities through land- grant colleges.
In a completely independent development, in early 1900s Wyoming, an American state required applicants wishing to gain access to state water to file a detailed technical application for this. It was in this context that licensing for the engineering profession was introduced to protect the public from inaccurate applications and to ensure accurate records on water abstractions. State registration became mandatory for those representing themselves to the public as engineers or land surveyors and the state board of examiners for the profession was created at the same time. So popular was this development that by 1950 all states across America had adopted the licensing tradition.
Alongside these developments engineering societies modeled on the British self-regulating model continued to grow and fragment by engineering discipline into civil, mechanical, electrical, and other forms of engineering. Examples of these included the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE, 1852), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 1880) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, 1884). However self-regulation by engineers never gained a stronghold in America.
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“Driven by eras of enlightenment, reformation and revolution, in Europe in the renaissance period (15th and 16th centuries) engineering increasingly became systematic and science-based in addition to drawing upon empirical experience. With major advances in printing technology in the 15th century, illustrated books of machines and manuals of technical processes were published by many inventors.
The works of Leonardo Da Vinci, filled with sketches of possible and impossible machines illustrates this. The science of chemistry evolved from medieval alchemy, and the science of astronomy evolved into natural philosophy. By the end of the 17th century, these led to a scientific revolution and science had become an established mathematical, mechanical, and empirical body of knowledge. Natural Philosophers such as Galileo Galilei, René Blaise Pascal, and Isaac Newton, among others contributed much to this evolution.”
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